Saul Chosen to Be King

9 There was a man of Benjamin whose name was ^(A)Kish, the son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah, a Benjaminite, a man of wealth.

^51 (A)Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of ^(B)Abiel.

²¹ Then ^(A)they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul ^(B)the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

³⁶ and his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab, ³⁷ Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth; ³⁸ and Mikloth was the father of Shimeam; and these also lived opposite their kinsmen in Jerusalem, with their kinsmen. ^39 (A)Ner fathered Kish, Kish fathered Saul, Saul fathered Jonathan, Malchi-shua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.

³⁰ His firstborn son: Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab, ³¹ Gedor, Ahio, Zecher, ³² and Mikloth (he fathered Shimeah). Now these also lived opposite their kinsmen in Jerusalem, with their kinsmen. ^33 (A)Ner was the father of Kish, Kish of Saul, Saul of ^(B)Jonathan, Malchi-shua, Abinadab and Eshbaal;

² And there was a man in ^(A)Maon whose business was in ^(B)Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. ^(C)He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

³ He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all ^(A)the people of the east.

³² Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. ^(A)He had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.